Seattle foot ferry coming next year
With a $50 round-trip fare,
it won’t be for commuters
BY CHARLIE BERMANT
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT TOWNSEND — Preparations for a passenger ferry to
Seattle — at $50 per round trip
— are focused on completing necessary paperwork and an outreach program that will tell the
public what the service is — and
what it is not.

Ferry service remains on track
to begin service in the summer of
2013, said Jim Pivarnik, deputy
director of the Port of Port
Townsend.
The first of a series of community meetings about the project is
planned Tuesday, when port representatives will answer questions from the Tuesday Morning

Group at 9 a.m. at the Highway
20 Roadhouse, 2152 W. Sims Way.
Port personnel also expect to
answer questions about the financial problems reportedly besetting
the Port of Kingston’s ferry to
Seattle, which is costing taxpayers about $35,000 per passenger
and which may be shut down,
according to The Seattle Times.
The two projects are quite different, Pivarnik said.
Although the Port Townsend
boat will be built or purchased
through a $1.3 million federal
grant, no public money will be
used for its operation, he said.

It will be operated privately by
Puget Sound Express.
Also, it will not be a commuter
service, Pivarnik added.
“The purpose of the ferry is to
bring people from Seattle to Port
Townsend,” he said.
“Some people may use it to get
to work, but that’s not its purpose.
“If you have to be in Seattle at
a certain time of the day, it may
not be the best way to go.”
Weather and water conditions
may decrease reliability, and sailings could be cancelled at the last
minute, Pivarnik said, adding
that, at $50 per round trip, it also

is too expensive for commuters.
“The service will be priced for
visitors who will pay the $50
fare,” he said.
“People are worried that the
ferry will turn Port Townsend into
a bedroom community, but that’s
not going to happen.”

Kingston boats? No thanks
Pivarnik said that the Port of
Kingston did approach the Port
of Port Townsend to see whether
it wanted to buy either of its
boats.
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Community stays true to tradition
Loyalty Day
in Brinnon
60 marchers and 60 viewers:
‘Small-town America at its best’
BY CHARLIE BERMANT
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

BRINNON — The annual Loyalty Day parade
doesn’t draw a large quantity of people, but the quality
is first-rate, organizers brag.
“The saying is that we have more people in the
parade than we have watching it,” said organizer
Dalila Dowd. “But the whole community comes out to
honor our country.”
Dowd estimated that this year’s parade drew 60
participants and 60 observers.
“This is the first parade of the year and represents
small-town America at its best,” said Jim Watson, as
he helped participants line up before the parade.

Parade travels two blocks
The parade, which travels along two long blocks
through Brinnon, took about 10 minutes from start to
finish.
It was followed by a ceremony in front of Johnston
Realty at 40 Brinnon Lane.
Commemorated with large banners carried by
parade participants were 12 soldiers from Washington
state who had died in Iraq or Afghanistan.
“It is to honor those who have given their lives and
those who are serving now,” Watson said.
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Brinnon VFW post commander John Dowd, third from right, leads the Loyalty Day parade in Brinnon
on Friday afternoon. He and other marchers hold commemorative banners honoring soldiers who
were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The community parade is a highlight for this Hood Canal town.

Magnetic levitation track
has first phase done in PA
Though Lamb was in his AirJeff Robb said recently.
When all four phases are done, port Industrial Park office several
the track will be about the length days ago, he would not be available
PORT ANGELES — Inventor of a football field, drawings show. for an interview, said an employee
Karl “Jerry” Lamb has completed
from behind a locked gate.
the $208,000 first phase of an Opened office in 2010
“We’re not doing any press
elevated test track to demonstrate
releases now,” the employee said.
Lamb, a Forks native, also
his LEVX magnetic levitation
Lamb’s LEVX technology uses
technology, the city of Port Ange- founded and is president of Magna a cushion of magnetic energy to
Force Inc., which opened an office move large, heavy objects, such as
les’ building department said.
Lamb is building an approxi- in late 2010 in Port Angeles in the trains and 40-foot containers,
mately $1 million demonstration former Bank of America building seemingly on air and without
project at a facility he leases at at 102 E. Front St.
effort.
Lamb did not return calls for
the Port of Port Angeles’ Airport
TURN TO LEVX/A6
Industrial Park, Port Executive comment on the project.
BY PAUL GOTTLIEB

PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

The LEVX test track takes shape behind the assembly
building at the Airport Industrial Park in Port Angeles.
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Dempsey
pulls teen
from wreck
“GREY’S ANATOMY”
STAR Patrick Dempsey
turned real-life hero Tuesday when he pulled a teenage driver from a wrecked
car after a serious accident
outside his Malibu, Calif.,
home.
The TV
hunk, who
plays top
neurosurgeon Dr.
Derek
Shepherd
on the hit
medical
Dempsey
drama,
raced into action after witnessing the young motorist’s Mustang flip over several times and crash into
his front yard.
According to TMZ.com,
Dempsey used a crowbar to
free the boy from the wreckage as he waited for paramedics to arrive.
The crash victim, whose
name has not been
released, suffered a concussion but no other injuries.

Paltrow depression
Gwyneth Paltrow said
she was mortified when
her husband, Chris Mar-

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

‘JAMES BOND’

IN

TURKEY

Actor Daniel Craig, center, pauses with
actresses Naomie Harris, left, and
Berenice Marlohe for a photocall for
the 23rd film in the James Bond series,
“Skyfall,” in Istanbul on Sunday.
tin, suggested she was suffering from postpartum
depression.
The actress began experiencing the symptoms following the birth of her son,
Moses, in 2006. At the time,
Paltrow couldn’t understand
why she was struggling
because she had felt so
happy when her daughter,
Apple, arrived in 2004.
The star’s musician
spouse realized she wasn’t
coping and broached the

subject with her.
“My husband actually
said, ‘Something’s wrong. I
think you have postnatal
depression.’ I was mortified.
‘No, I don’t!’ And then I
started researching what it
was and the symptoms and
I was like, ‘Oh, yes I do.’’’
The 39-year-old found it
easier to cope after she
opened up about her condition. She hopes to help
other sufferers by discussing it in public.

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By The Associated Press

WILLIAM “MOOSE”
SKOWRON, 81, a fivetime World Series champion and one of only two
baseball players to hit
three home runs in a Game
7, died Friday of congestive
heart failure at Northwest
Community Hospital in
Arlington Heights, Ill.
Mr.
Skowron
became a
star first
baseman
with the
New York
Yankees and
went on to
Mr. Skowron
appear in
in 1967
eight AllStar games over six seasons.
Mr. Skowron played for
the Yankees from 1954-62,
then won a fifth title with
Los Angeles in the first
season after he was dealt
to the Dodgers for Stan
Williams.
He hit .282 in 14 major
league seasons with 211
home runs and 888 RBIs,
also spending time with
the expansion Washington
Senators (1964), the White
Sox (1964-67) and the California Angels (1967). He
was an All-Star from 195761, appearing in both
games in 1959 and 1960,
then was picked one final
time in 1965.

38.5%

Angeles, his family
announced.
When Mr. Gordon set up
his practice in 1937 “three
steps” from the pressroom
of the California Eagle, a
black weekly founded in
1879 by an escaped slave,
there were only 30 black
lawyers in the state.
The newspaper’s location proved fortuitous. It
was on Central Avenue,
“the city’s black thoroughfare,” Mr. Gordon later
said, and he benefited from
being one of the first black
lawyers to hang a shingle
in the city’s black community.
He kept his practice in
the neighborhood for 65
years, defending the
famous — jazz singer Billie Holiday was a steady
client — and untold lesserknown names often facing
criminal charges.
In the early 1940s, Mr.
Gordon represented dozens
of railroad dining-car waiters whom the government
wanted to penalize for not
reporting their tips. When

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settled, each porter was
ordered to pay a $25 fine.
During the same era, he
Setting it Straight
defended a group of black
deputy sheriffs who made
Corrections and clarifications
an off-duty arrest while
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Peninsula Lookback
From the pages of the PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

1937 (75 years ago)

A West End airplane
mystery is deemed solved.
A logger along the Clallam Bay-Sappho road said
that he saw an airplane
with seven lights skimming
the tops of trees and
thought it might have
crashed.
Bloedel-Donovan logging
railroads Superintendent
Charles Donovan said “the
nearest thing we have to
an airplane is our logging
locomotive, No. 14, as she
flies up and down the track
with seven lights ablaze all
the time.”
No reports of missing
Seen Around
planes or pilots have been
Peninsula snapshots
received from Pacific
A YOUNG CALF bully- Northwest points.
ing his way through a herd
1962 (50 years ago)
of elk to a pond off U.S.
Highway 101 southeast of
A bronze plaque fasSequim . . .
tened
to a big granite boul_______
der at First and Laurel
WANTED! “Seen Around”
streets recognizes Victor
WALTER L. GORDON
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died at California Hospital email news@peninsuladailynews. Lewis Troy, a pioneer in
com.
art, music and drama in
Medical Center in Los

the town from 1890 to
1960.
The monument was set
up by the Michael Trebert
Chapter of the Daughters
of the American Revolution.
In the dedication speech,
William D. Welch, retired
public relations director for
Crown Zellerbach and former Port Angeles Evening
News editor, pointed out
the highlights of Smith’s
and Troy’s lives in connection with Port Angeles.

nie Edwards, a McDonald’s
real estate representative
from Bellevue, about the
company’s plans for the
restaurant’s exterior.
Edwards said the restaurant would have no
signs or golden arches
above the roof, and that the
exterior would be of natural wood siding.

Laugh Lines

LAST OCTOBER,
BALTIMORE handed out
its first citation to a restau1987 (25 years ago)
rant for repeated violations
What would become
of the city’s trans-fat ban.
Sequim’s first nationalThe name of the eatery:
brand fast-food restaurant Healthy Choice.
has received environmental
Your Monologue
checklist approval from the
City Council.
Lottery
The action clears the
way for issuance of a buildLAST NIGHT’S LOTing permit for McDonald’s
TERY results are available
at the corner of Seventh
on a timely basis by phonAvenue and Washington
ing, toll-free, 800-545-7510
Street.
or on the Internet at www.
Before voting to accept
walottery.com/Winning
the checklist, Mayor Jim
Numbers.
Dinan questioned Stepha-

Looking Back
From the files of The Associated Press

TODAY IS MONDAY, April
30, the 121st day of 2012. There are
245 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
■ On April 30, 1812, Louisiana,
formerly the Territory of Orleans,
became the 18th state of the Union.
On this date:
■ In 1789, George Washington
took office in New York as the first
president of the United States.
■ In 1803, the United States
purchased the Louisiana Territory
from France for 60 million francs,
the equivalent of about $15 million.
■ In 1900, engineer John
Luther “Casey” Jones of the Illinois Central Railroad died in a
train wreck near Vaughan, Miss.,
after staying at the controls in a

successful effort to save the passengers.
■ In 1912, Universal Studios
had its beginnings as papers incorporating the Universal Film Manufacturing Co. were filed and
recorded in New York State.
■ In 1939, the New York
World’s Fair officially opened with a
ceremony that included an address
by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
■ In 1945, as Russian troops
approached his Berlin bunker, Adolf
Hitler committed suicide along with
his wife of one day, Eva Braun.
■ In 1958, the American Association of Retired Persons, later
simply AARP, was founded in
Washington, D.C.
■ In 1973, President Richard M.

Nixon announced the resignations of
top aides H.R. Haldeman and John
Ehrlichman, along with Attorney
General Richard G. Kleindienst and
White House counsel John Dean.
■ In 1980, Queen Juliana of
the Netherlands abdicated; she
was succeeded by her daughter,
Princess Beatrix.
■ In 1997, ABC-TV aired the
“coming out” episode of the situation comedy “Ellen” in which the
title character, played by Ellen
DeGeneres, acknowledged her
homosexuality.
■ Ten years ago: Benevolence
International Foundation, an Islamic
charity based in suburban Chicago,
and its director were charged with
perjury; authorities accused the

charity of supporting terrorists.
Enaam Arnaout later pleaded guilty
to racketeering, admitting he’d
defrauded donors by diverting some
of the money to Islamic military
groups in Bosnia and Chechnya.
■ Five years ago: An Israeli
government probe faulted Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert for what it
called “very severe failures” in
Israel’s war with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.
■ One year ago: A Libyan official said Moammar Gadhafi had
escaped a NATO missile strike in
Tripoli that killed one of his sons
and three young grandchildren.
There have been conflicting
accounts about whether Gadhafi’s
relatives died in the airstrike.

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Briefly: Nation
Clinton goes
on the stump
for president
WASHINGTON — Once a
tense rivalry, the relationship
between President Barack
Obama and Bill and Hillary
Rodham Clinton has evolved
into a genuine partnership.
For
Obama, Bill
Clinton is a
fundraising
juggernaut, a
reminder to
voters that a
Democrat ran
the White
House the last
time the econ- Clinton
omy thrived.
Obama’s re-election campaign
has put Bill Clinton on notice
that he will be used as a top surrogate, further evidence of how
far the two camps have come
since the bitter days of the 2008
Democratic primary between
Obama and Hillary Clinton, now
his secretary of state.
On Sunday evening in Virginia, the current and former
president made the first of three
joint appearances at fundraisers
for Obama’s campaign.

Van plunge kills 7
NEW YORK — Seven people
— including three children —
were killed Sunday when their
van vaulted off an overpass and
fell 100 feet to the ground near
the Bronx Zoo, police said.
The van was driving in the

left lane of the Bronx River
Parkway around 12:30 p.m.
when it glanced off the median,
careened across three lanes of
traffic and went off the edge,
police said.
“It launches — airborne —
over the guardrail,” a police
source said.
No other cars were believed
to be involved. All the victims
were in the van, police said.
The van landed near Morris
Park Avenue. It was unclear if it
hit zoo property or just nearby.
The Parkway was closed as
officials tried to determine what
caused the accident.

Dolphin in wetlands
HUNTINGTON BEACH,
Calif. — A wayward dolphin is
spending a third straight day in
a narrow wetlands channel
along the Southern California
coast, under the watchful eyes
of wildlife experts.
Peter Wallerstein of Marine
Animal Rescue said Sunday
that the 6-foot-long, black-andwhite common dolphin looks
healthy, but appeared slightly
disoriented.
The dolphin was spotted circled in shallow waters in a
channel of the Bolsa Chica wetlands Friday.
Wildlife experts on paddleboards managed to coax the animal toward the open sea Saturday, but it was spooked by a
pair of fellow dolphins and
swam back to the wetlands.
Wallerstein said rescuers
might try to herd the dolphin
back to the ocean today.
The Associated Press

1 World Trade Center
reaching big milestone
southern end of Manhattan.
Author Neal Bascomb, who
drives into New York every few
weeks from Philadelphia,
recalled a growing awareness
that 1 World Trade Center was
BY DAVID W. DUNLAP
visible from the Verrazano-NarTHE NEW YORK TIMES
rows Bridge. “You know, I was
NEW YORK — If the winds happy to see it,” he said. “I
are forgiving enough over thought, ‘Wonderful.’ ”
Lower Manhattan — up where
workers can see the whole out- Topping out next year
line of the island’s tip — a steel
From a construction point of
column will be hoisted into
view,
the completion of the
place this afternoon atop the
exoskeleton of 1 World Trade framework, known as the topCenter and New York will have ping out, will be a more significant milestone. That is to occur
a new tallest building.
Poking into the sky, the first in a couple of months, when 1
column of the 100th floor of 1 World Trade Center reaches
World Trade Center will bring 1,368 feet at its rooftop parapet,
the tower to a height of 1,271 identical in height to the first 1
feet, making it 21 feet higher World Trade Center, which was
than the Empire State Building. destroyed, with the rest of the
After several false starts, a complex, in the terrorist attack
skyscraper has taken form at of Sept. 11, 2001.
The ultimate topping out
ground zero. By late last fall, it
could be spotted from La Guar- will be the completion next year
of an antenna that will bring
dia Airport, 8½ miles away.
A tower has again become the structure’s overall height to
an inescapable presence at the 1,776 feet.

Briefly: World
U.N. observer
tells Assad to
end violence
BEIRUT — The head of the
United Nations observer mission in Syria on Sunday called
on President Bashar Assad and
the country’s opposition to stop
fighting and allow a tenuous
cease-fire to take hold.
Norwegian
Maj. Gen.
Robert Mood
spoke after
arriving in
Damascus to
take charge of
an advance
team of 16
U.N. monitors
Mood
trying to salvage an international peace
plan.
Mood told reporters that the
300 observers the U.N. has
authorized “cannot solve all the
problems” in Syria, asking for
cooperation from Assad loyalists
and rebels alike.
“We want to have combined
efforts focusing on the welfare
of the Syrian people,” he said.
The cease-fire began unraveling almost as soon as it went
into effect April 12.

3 die in yacht race
ENSENADA, Mexico — A
yacht involved in a race off the
coast of California and Mexico
apparently collided at night with
a much larger vessel, leaving
three crew members dead and
one missing, a sailing organiza-

tion said early Sunday. It was
the state’s second ocean racing
tragedy this month.
The 37-foot Aegean, carrying
a crew of four, was reported
missing Saturday during a 125mile Newport Beach, Calif., to
Ensenada, Mexico, yacht race,
the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The Newport Ocean Sailing
Association, the race organizer,
said the accident occurred near
the two countries’ border.
“It appeared the damage was
not inflicted by an explosion but
by a collision with a ship much
larger than the 37-foot vessel,”
spokesman Rich Roberts said.
He said it was possible the
crew might not have been able
to get out of the way of a ship,
perhaps a freighter.
Roberts said a race tracking
system indicated the boat disappeared about 1:30 a.m. Saturday.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ST. LOUIS

TENT COLLAPSE MAY PROMPT PROBE

One person died and a dozen were injured Saturday after high winds blew over
a party tent in St. Louis near Busch Stadium. The collapse could lead to closer
scrutiny of the temporary structures, Mayor Francis Slay’s spokesman said.

Ex-Libya oil chief’s body is
pulled from river in Vienna

20 slain in Nigeria
JOHANNESBURG, South
Africa — A terrorist attack at a
university in the northern Nigeria city of Kano on Sunday left
as many as 20 Christian worshipers dead and dozens of
other people wounded.
Gunmen in a car and on
motorcycles threw homemade
bombs at Christians gathered
on the campus of Bayero University and shot them as they
tried to flee, according to agency
reports.
There was no immediate
claim of responsibility, but the
assault was similar to attacks
by Boko Haram, an Islamic
extremist group.
The Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VIENNA — Shukri Ghanem, a
former Libyan prime minister
and oil minister who last year
announced he was abandoning
Moammar Gadhafi’s regime to
support the rebels who ultimately
toppled him, was found dead Sunday in a section of the Danube
river flowing through Vienna,
Austrian police said.
Police spokesman Roman
Hahslinger said the 69-year-old’s
corpse was found floating in the
river early in the morning.
The body showed no external
signs of violence, but the cause of
death was not immediately clear
and an autopsy will be carried
out, Hahslinger said.

Quick Read

“It’s possible
that he became ill
and fell into the
water,” the police
spokesman said.
The body had
no personal identification other than
a document nam- Ghanem
ing the company
he was working for, Hahslinger
said. A company employee identified him, he said.
Hahslinger said Ghanem
apparently left his residence early
Sunday after spending Saturday
evening at home with an acquaintance.
Ghanem last served as his
country’s oil minister in 2011. He

left Libya for Tunisia and then
Europe in June as insurgents
were pushing to topple Gadhafi,
and he subsequently announced
he would support the rebels.

Friendly and approachable
Reporters covering the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries remembered Ghanem as a friendly and approachable man who readily gave his
cellphone number to journalists.
With degrees in law and economics, Ghanem served in senior
positions within the Vienna-based
OPEC before becoming Libyan
prime minister in June 2003 —
an office he held until 2006 when
he took the oil ministry position.

. . . more news to start your day

West: Las Vegas man
charged in random killings

Nation: ‘Avengers’ hurtles
to huge overseas debut

World: Bin Laden’s wives
not tied to terror, Saudis say

World: Red Cross worker
found murdered in Pakistan

USING A HAMMER as a weapon,
a “complete stranger” allegedly chose
a family at random and attacked them
in their home, killing a woman and her
daughter.
Bryan Clay, 22, was arrested Friday
in the April 15 rape and bludgeoning
deaths of 38-year-old Ignacia Martinez
and 10-year-old Karla Martinez. He
had no connection to the family of five,
police Lt. Ray Steiber said Saturday.
Police were notified about the case
when a 9-year-old boy, who was not
injured by the attacker, came to school
the next day and informed a counselor
that his mom and sister were dead.
Nothing was taken from the house.

THE SUPERHERO SAGA “The
Avengers” raked in $178.4 million in
overseas ticket sales days before
opening in U.S. theaters.
The blockbuster launch will help fan
the frenzy already in place for Disney’s
“Avengers,” the superhero mash-up of
Marvel Comics idols.
The Sony Screen Gems ensemble
comedy “Think Like a Man” was No. 1
for a second weekend with $18 million.
Four movies hovered around the
No. 2 spot in the $11 million range:
Sony’s “The Pirates! Band of Misfits”;
Warner Bros.’ “The Lucky One”; Lionsgate’s “The Hunger Games”; and Universal’s “The Five-Year Engagement.”

SAUDI ARABIA HAS found no evidence that Osama bin Laden’s wives
and family members deported from
Pakistan were involved in terrorism, an
official Saudi statement said Sunday,
an indication that authorities will allow
the group to remain in the kingdom.
Pakistan said the 14-member group,
including three of bin Laden’s widows
and their children, were deported Friday after weeks of negotiations.
The Saudi Press Agency said there
“is no information or evidence of the
family’s involvement . . . in any criminal
or illegal acts.”
Al-Qaeda mastermind Bin Laden
was killed by Navy SEALS in 2011.

THE BODY OF a British Red Cross
worker held captive in Pakistan since
January was found in an orchard, his
throat slit and a note attached to his
body saying he was killed because no
ransom was paid, police say.
Khalil Rasjed Dale, 60, was managing a health program in Quetta in
southwestern Pakistan when armed
men seized him from a street close to
his office. The identities of his captors
are unknown, but the region is home to
separatist and Islamist militants who
have kidnapped for ransom before.
The director-general of the International Committee of the Red Cross
condemned the “barbaric act.”

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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PA library to limit service during redo
Patrons may reserve
material, make requests
BY ARWYN RICE
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT ANGELES — The
Port Angeles Main Library
will be partially closed Friday through May 20 as the
final stages of a $72,000
reconfiguration project are
completed.
The closure will allow
the library at 2210 S. Peabody St. to carry out the
final stage of a phased project that has been under way
since January.
Library patrons, however,
will still be able to access
materials through a reservation station in the lobby.
Limited checkout services will be available from
noon to 6 p.m., Monday
through Saturday, using a
service area set up in the
library’s Carver Meeting
Room.

Online requests
Patrons may use a computer to place holds, pick up
held materials and browse
and check out items from a
mixed display of library
materials.
Staff will be on hand to
assist customers who are
not comfortable using computers to put books on hold,
said Margaret Jakubcin,
assistant library director.

Daily newspapers and
time-sensitive news magazines will be available to
read in the lobby area, and
wireless access will be
available in the lobby.
Library programs will
not be offered during the
closure.
“In the 13 years since
the beautiful Port Angeles
Library was completed, customer expectations about
service, comfort and access
have changed dramatically,”
Jakubcin said.

New carpeting
The biggest part of the
project will be new carpets,
which are in poor condition;
in some spots, the carpet is
a trip-hazard, she said.
Jakubcin said that the
library’s cement floors will
be trenched for new wiring
to support updated electronics, and new carpeting
will be installed.
The large, open area currently used for programming will get comfortable,
movable furniture to make
it a more inviting space,
along with more prominent
art displays and an information kiosk, she said.
“The reconfigured spaces
will be both functional and
beautiful,” Jakubcin said.
“We’re looking forward to

CHRIS TUCKER/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

The front desk at the Port Angeles Main Library of the North Olympic Library System will be
replaced as part of a reconfiguration in May.
finishing the project and
unveiling it to the public.”
The project was staged
to take place over several
months in order to minimize the length of the
required closure period.
Popular materials will
be moved closer to the main
entrance for fast and easy
access, and less popular
items moved out of the

library’s “premier real the upcoming “River Story”
art display that celebrates
estate,” Jakubcin said.
the Elwha River restoration, she said.
Painting
The library will resume
When the library re- normal hours and operations
opens, a 25-foot-by-10-foot Monday, May 21, at 10 a.m.
painting will hang from the
The
reconfiguration
library’s rafters, which is project has been entirely
not part of the redesign, funded through donations
Jakubcin said.
from the Port Angeles
The painting is part of Friends of the Library and

other private donors.
For more information on
the closure, contact Jakubcin at 360-417-8505 or
AssistantDirector@nols.org
or visit www.nols.org.

________
Reporter Arwyn Rice can be
reached at 360-452-2345 ext.
5070, or at arwyn.rice@peninsula
dailynews.com.

An artist
who
works in
m a n y
media —
carving
s t o n e ,
weaving
w o r d s , Beck
painting in
watercolor — Beck said his
creativity stems from the
maritime environment of
the Pacific Northwest.
“I am convinced that
the time I take to write, to
record and reflect, to draw,
paint and carve, signifi-

cantly enhances my relationship to all things that
matter most,” Beck said.
“As a practitioner, a
teacher and an artist, I
know my spirit and my
spiritual experience is
emboldened by these practices.”
Beck’s appearance is
presented by Centrum.
For information on the
foundation’s forthcoming
season of writing, art and
music programs and conferences,
visit
www.
Centrum.org or phone 360385-3102.

PORT TOWNSEND —
Sushi will loom large on the
screen and in discussions
after the showing of “Jiro
Dreams of Sushi” on Tuesday night at the Rose Theatre.
In this First Tuesday
Film Salon presented by
the Port Townsend Film
Institute, executive chef
Peter Nakamura and his
staff at Ichikawa Japanese
Cuisine of Port Townsend
will take part in a conversation about wasabi, maguro,
sushi etiquette and related
matters, following the
7:20 p.m. screening.

Ex-surgeon general to speak at PA fundraiser

Perfection and joy

PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

The movie is about food,
of course, but it’s also about
at least two other topics: the
pursuit of perfection and
the joy that chef Jiro experiences while in the kitchen.

PORT ANGELES — Peninsula Behavior Health will
welcome former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jocelyn
Elders at its second annual
fundraiser Friday, May 11.
The event will be held at
the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth
St., from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The theme of the event
and the emphasis of Elders’
address is “Education: A
Key to a Healthy America.”
Born to poor farming

PORT TOWNSEND —
Darsie Beck, an artist,
journal-keeper and author
of Your Essential Nature: A
Practical Guide to Greater
Creativity and Social Harmony, will give a free reading at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Beck, who also gives
workshops in writing,
visual art and unlocking
creativity, will come from
his Vashon Island home to
speak in Cabin 259 at Fort
Worden State Park, 200
Battery Way.

“Jiro Dreams of Sushi” screens Tuesday at the
Rose Theater in Port Townsend.
The Port Townsend Film its members a $1 discount
Institute
hosts
these off admission to the movie
monthly salons and offers being discussed, plus 50
cents off popcorn that night.
For more information,
visit www.PTFilmFest.com
or www.RoseTheatre.com or
phone 360-379-1333.

Elders was the first person in Arkansas to become
board-certified in pediatric
endocrinology.
She was the 16th surgeon general, the first African-American and only the
second woman to head the

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Elders also is an expert
on prevention of child
abuse, teen pregnancy,
domestic violence and substance abuse.
She has published more
than 250 medical studies
and continues an active
speaking schedule in support of better health benefits for all.
Tickets are $100 per person or $750 for a table of
eight and may be purchased
by phoning Brenda Gilchrist at 360-457-0432, ext.
227.

Four-year-old Rily Pippin of Port Angeles looks at a video image
of bugs crawling in a microscopically enlarged soil sample as
Olympic National Park museum curator Gay Hunter explains
what he is seeing during Junior Ranger Day at the Olympic
National Park visitor center in Port Angeles on Saturday. The
event, part of National Park Week, featured nature walks and
other hands-on activities for youngsters to learn about nature.

PORT TOWNSEND â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Jean Walat has been named
the new program director
for the Port Townsend
Marine Science Center.
Vo l u n teer/citizen
science coordinator for
the center
since 2005,
Walat fills a
post
that
was vacated Walat
by
Lee
Whitford.
The program director
oversees education programming; both the marine
and natural history exhibits; and the citizen science
and volunteer programs.
Duties also include participating in the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
strategic direction.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jean has been instru-

mental to the success of our
organization for the past
seven years,â&#x20AC;? said Anne
Murphy, executive director.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a natural progression for her to move into the
position of program director.
Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m so pleased to be working
with her in this capacity.â&#x20AC;?

Her experience
Walat earned a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in biological sciences from the University
of Delaware and a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
degree in environmental
science at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.
When she moved to Port
Townsend from New Jersey
in 2000, she worked as a
Port Townsend city planner.
Before that, she worked
as the education director for
the Bayshore Discovery
Project, a schooner-based
environmental education

program on New Jerseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Delaware Bayshore, and as
a developer and manager of
online bioscience databases
at BioScience Information
Services, the publisher of
Biological Abstracts.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel honored to have
an expanded role with the
PTMSC,â&#x20AC;? Walat said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The
programs we provide are
important to our community, our environment and
our future.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking forward to
developing more in-depth
opportunities for adults and
youth, and helping the
organization thrive.â&#x20AC;?
The Port Townsend
Marine Science Center,
located on the beach at Fort
Worden State Park, celebrates
its 30th anniversary this year.
For more information,
phone 360-385-5582, email
info@ptmsc.org or visit
www.ptmsc.org.

SEKIU â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Lower
Elwha Klallam tribe and
Rayonier have proposed a
partnership to restore
salmon habitat on the Hoko
River in the North Olympic
Peninsula.
The project would add
nearly 2 miles of salmon
habitat to the river, in conjunction with the Elwha
River restoration project
that is expected to add 70
miles of salmon habitat.
The 25-mile-long Hoko
River empties into the
Strait of Juan de Fuca at
the Hoko River State Park,
4 miles west of Sekiu.
Replacing a 7-foot corrugated steel culvert with a
bridge would remove the
last major human-made
barrier to letting fish spawn
in the Hoko River watershed, said Cheryl Baumann, coordinator of the
North Olympic Peninsula
Lead Entity for Salmon.
The state-run salmon
organization has a little
less than $1 million in grant
funds to distribute for local
salmon habit restoration.
Baumann said the project would benefit chinook,
chum, coho, cutthroat and
steelhead salmon.
The Hoko River project
managers are requesting

$370,000 in funding for the
project.
Another $200,000 in
matching dollars would be
provided by the Lower
Elwha and Rayonier, she
said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are required to
make a 35 percent match
but are offering a 50 percent match,â&#x20AC;? Baumann said.
The culvert, located on
private timberland, has a
7-foot drop to the creek
below, which prevents adult
salmon from accessing the
upper river.

1950s culvert

received $4 million in funding for projects related to
the Elwha River restoration, as well as projects on
Salt Creek, Twin Rivers
and Coal Creek.
Projects proposed for
2012 funding include:
â&#x2013; Phase II design for
pier removal along the
Strait of Juan de Fuca and
near the Twin River proposed by state Department
of Fish and Wildlife, working in partnership with the
North Olympic Land Trust
and Coastal Watershed
Institute.
â&#x2013; Final design of the
Pysht River Estuary Restoration Project proposed by
Lower Elwha Klallam tribe,
working in partnership
with Merrill & Ring.
â&#x2013; Phase III of Dungeness River irrigation group
piping proposed by the Clallam Conservation District
to keep more water in the
Dungeness River.
â&#x2013; Dungeness
River
instream flow restoration
and storage, proposed by
the Washington Water
Trust, to help conserve
water and supplement late
season flows.
â&#x2013; Proposed protection of
land via a conservation
easement along a Clallam
River tributary sponsored
by the North Olympic Land
Trust.

Replacing the 1950s-era
culvert with a bridge would
give salmon access to 10,050
feet of additional habitat in
the river and also would
increase movement of sediment and wood, Baumann
said.
The Lead Entity for
Salmon board of directors
visited the site April 11 to
prepare for a May 8 meeting, during which the Hoko
River and six other projects
will be considered.
The board makes decisions on which high-priority
salmon restoration projects
are forwarded for funding
_______
from the Salmon Recovery
Reporter Arwyn Rice can be
Funding Board.
reached at 360-452-2345 ext.
In December 2011, the 5070, or at arwyn.rice@peninsula
Lead Entity for Salmon dailynews.com.

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purchase a craft.
The decision wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We told them we werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
interested,â&#x20AC;? Pivarnik said. made until all the paperâ&#x20AC;&#x153;They are too slow and use work is done, Pivarnik said.
Initial plans are for the
too much fuel.â&#x20AC;?
With their 149-passen- ferry to make two round
ger capacity, they also are trips a day, seven days a
week in the summer
too big.
Port personnel are con- months and cut back to
sidering a 49-passenger weekends only during the
ferry, although the idea of winter, Pivarnik said.
For more information,
running a 75-passenger
phone 360-385-0656.
boat has been discussed.
Port commissioners ini________
tially intended to build a
Jefferson County Reporter
boat to the routeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s specifica- Charlie Bermant can be reached at
tions using the grant money 360-385-2335 or charlie.bermant@
but they have since decided peninsuladailynews.com.

Parade: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Great

dealâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of spirit
CONTINUED FROM A1 stuff, but this is straight
Americana and is very wellThe paradeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s partici- intended.â&#x20AC;?
Loyalty Day was first
pants included primary
school classes from Brinnon observed in 1921 as Ameriand Quilcene, as well as canization Day, and was
members of the Veterans of designated as an official
by
President
Foreign Wars, the Rhody holiday
Royalty, Brinnon Elemen- Dwight D. Eisenhower in
tary School royalty and 1958 for the reaffirmation
actors from the Brinnon of loyalty to the United
States and for the recogniCommunity Theater.
tion of the heritage of American freedom.
Elected officials
The official designation
Several Jefferson County is May 1, but the Brinnon
elected officials also partici- celebration, which has
pated, including all three taken place for 25 years, is
county commissioners, the usually on the last Friday of
assessor, treasurer, auditor April.
and Superior Court clerk.
In commemoration of
â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a great deal of Loyalty Day, the local post
community spirit here,â&#x20AC;? office is offering a commemsaid Treasurer Judi Morris. orative cancellation, which
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Many of the larger costs 45 cents above the
parades, like Rhody, have cost of the stamp and the
visitors from out of county. envelope.
This is more intimate,â&#x20AC;? she
The cancellations will be
said.
available throughout the
â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is very heartfelt month of May at the post
and sincere, and there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t office at 144 Brinnon Lane.
a lot of shtick,â&#x20AC;? said Ruth
________
Gordon, Superior Court
Jefferson County Reporter
clerk.
Bermant can be reached at
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like the shtick of the Charlie
360-385-2335
or
charlie.
Kinetic [Skulpture Race in bermant@peninsuladailynews.
Port Townsend] and all that com.

serâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ot
These 500 quatrains were written to
challenge, to challenge readers to think
in a manner in which they might not have
thought before, and to cause them to examine the perspectives from
which they view the world. Your comments about Asherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quatrains
are welcome. Keep them coming. Those comments are of interest.
They are enlightening and constantly and pleasantly surprising
by the range of thought they exhibit. Some of you took my caveat
seriously that the quatrains should be read carefully rather than
quickly. Several of you inquired about the quatrain series title, i.e.,
The . D in Roman Numerals is 500.

The

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Life is a one-time performance, not a dress rehearsal.
Thank you for all your quatrain
comments. They are constantly
enlightening. The Asher community
continues to grow. Contact Asher
by telephone at 360 926 5521 or by
E-Mail at asher73@ hotmail.es.

While there are quatrains included for April,
this monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Notes are dedicated to my
wife for her birthday with the inclusion of
Angel by My Side, written in 2005
for her birthday gift.

Angel by My Side

316

When she wakes with eyes so sleepy,
cuddled safely in her dreams,
fresh from sleeping, oh, so deeply,
angel by my side she seems.

Badon Hillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s echoes forever ring,
was Arthur ever there?
Did he really ďŹ ght a Saxon King?
How did the Britons fare?

When I touch her cheek so sweetly,
stroke her brow so soft and ďŹ ne,
angel who I love completely,
canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really mine.

317

When she wakes and softly greets me,
letting go the passing dream,
once again, her love completes me,
angel by my side she seems.
Andorran farmers spend their life
In the shade of mountains Pyrenee.
So far away from Europeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strife,
As long as their tongues speak
French, you see.

307

Tunis reels with pressures brought,
SalaďŹ sts bringing more demands.
The Niqab a solution sought,
how can their education stand?

318

If in futureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purse we delve,
appears at night as if a thief,
Comes a Mayan triple twelve,
as eyes grow round in disbelief.

The Island Lionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mancunian left
drifts farther out to sea.
Of a moral vector true bereft,
Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re asking, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What can be?â&#x20AC;?

312

Other Olympic Peninsula
Soroptimist clubs
THE SEQUIM CLUB is one of several Soroptimists International clubs on the North Olympic
Peninsula.
They include:
â&#x2013; Soroptimist International of Port AngelesNoon Club, founded Feb. 16, 1944, www.sipawa.org.
â&#x2013; Soroptimist International Port Angeles-Jet
Set, chartered July 1, 1981, www.sijetset.com/.
â&#x2013; Soroptimist International of Port Townsend/
East Jefferson County, chartered on May 2, 1947,
www.soroptimistpt.org/index.htm.
â&#x2013; Soroptimist International of the Olympic
Rain Forest, founded 1990, http://tinyurl.
com/7y99gcg.
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1921, Soroptimist International has grown to more
than 100,000 members in
120 countries and territories.

Chartered in 1947
Soroptimist International of Sequim, now at 49
members, was chartered on
May 2, 1947, by a dozen
community women who

of abandoned and/or abused horses. Hay, grain and
veterinarian care are all expensive. You can help by
sending your generous contributions, large or small, to
Eyes That Smile at P. O. Box 252, Sequim, WA 98382.
Eyes That Smile appreciates your help.
The horses do, too.

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included Helen Haller, the
late former principal who
was honored by having a
Sequim elementary school
named for her.
The club raises money
through several events,
especially the annual
March Garden Show at the
Sequim unit of the Boys &
Girls Clubs of the Olympic
Peninsula on Fir Street,
which in its 14th year net-

But perhaps the Sequim
clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best-known charitable effort is the Medical
Loan Closet, which lends
donated items, such as
walkers, wheelchairs, bath
seats, commodes, crutches
and canes, to those with
health challenges.
The closet is a storage
unit at Sequim Stow Place,
600 N. Sequim Ave.
For an appointment, call
360-504-0231.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We probably have 300
to 400 items out on loan
right now,â&#x20AC;? said Creasey, a
club member for the past
eight years.
The loan closet is filled
from floor to ceiling with
medical equipment available for loan.

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on energy-saving magnetic
coupling devices that eliminate friction between
pumps and motors.
The test track is intended
to demonstrate how the
container boxes, commonly
carried on semi-trucks and
railroad cars, could be
transported on a LEVX
track, Robb said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s zero friction, essentially, to move up and down
a track,â&#x20AC;? he said.
The first 240 feet of the
track was completed in January, said engineering consultant Gene Unger of Port
Angeles in a March 14 letter to the city building
department, which permitted the project.
When completed, a
straight portion of the track
will be about 450 feet long,
according to a plan Magna
Force submitted to the city.
A curved portion that
loops off the main track is
about 400 feet long.

Inventor Karl â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jerryâ&#x20AC;? Lamb, seen here in 2011, has completed the
$208,000 first phase of an elevated test track to demonstrate his LEVX
magnetic levitation technology.

demonstration project site
in November.
LEVX track costs $6.5
million a mile, according to
Test vehicle
the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website,
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The next section will www.levx.com.
wait for the test vehicle to
be complete and tested on Cost of technology
this section,â&#x20AC;? Unger said in
The technologyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pricethe correspondence.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once this is accom- tag was one reason the Port
plished, the next section of of Long Beach, Calif.,
track construction will be rejected proposals by LEVX
undertaken.â&#x20AC;?
and at least two other magRobb said he expects a netic levitation companies a
container to be mounted on few years ago.
the track by the end of May.
The firms offered to
About a dozen company move cargo from the Port of
shareholders visited the Long Beach and the adjoining Port of Los Angeles â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
the busiest container port
in the U.S. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to nearby
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Lamb, who is in his early
50s, started LEVX in 1993
with $1,200 in savings in
the garage of his Port Angeles home.
Four years later, he had
18 U.S. patents and 114
foreign patents.
In one of his two interviews with the Peninsula
Daily News over the past 13
years, he said in early 2011
shortly after the Magna
Force office opened that the
company is selling LEVX
technology
worldwide,
including in Singapore.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to stay lowkey,â&#x20AC;? he said then.
In 1999, Magna Force
was awarded a $2.1 million
contract from the North________
west Energy Efficiency AlliSenior Staff Writer Paul Gottlieb
ance, which promotes can be reached at 360-417-3536
energy-efficient technology. or at paul.gottlieb@peninsuladaily
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feet of guide rails on the
Capitol grounds.
In 2004, Lockeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s successor, Gov. Chris Gregoire,
rode the mag-lev system at
the industrial park as part
of a campaign stop.
That same year, Bellevue-based MagnaDrive
Corp., which had exclusive
rights to Lambâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s magnetic
technology, was recognized
by the accounting firm
DeLoitte & Touche USA
LLP as one of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
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has been doing as it
approaches its 65th anniversary on Wednesday and
gears up for a May 8 celebration to mark the milestone.
The event will take place
at 6 p.m. at the Dungeness
Valley Lutheran Church,
925 N. Sequim Ave.
It will feature Monica
Dixon, an internationally
published author and psychologist who will talk on
how to manage the many
demands of parenthood.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to present who
we are to the young women
of the community,â&#x20AC;? said past
Sequim Soroptimist president Kathy Purcell, who
has been a club member for
15 years.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maybe some young
women will find that our
organization speaks to
them, and they will want to
get involved,â&#x20AC;? she said.
Since its founding in

369

Fred Dagg, a Kiwi country bloke,
was humour to his core.
Brought smiles to the down under folk.
Said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be the door.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;TrĂ¨s bien, trĂ¨s bien,â&#x20AC;? the students say.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;argent is all for me!â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let all the workers ďŹ nd a way,
Asher is a supporter of Eyes That Smile, the equine
we look toward Paris.â&#x20AC;?
rescue organization dedicated to the rescue and care

ted $21,500.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We try to keep most of
the fund to our community,â&#x20AC;?
said past president Kate
Creasey, adding that the
club has raised money for
Port Angeles projects,
including the Rose House
domestic violence shelter
and Healthy Families of
Clallam County.

BY JEFF CHEW

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Unmanned drones eyeing stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s border
age range and â&#x20AC;&#x153;they do
enter Washington airspace,
in the vicinity of Spokane,â&#x20AC;?
SEATTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The federal said Customs and Border
governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unmanned Protection spokeswoman
drones patrolling the U.S.- Gina Gray on Thursday.
Canadian border are venturing into Washington â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Multiplierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s airspace.
The unmanned aircraft
In testimony before a
U.S. Senate panel this week, â&#x20AC;&#x153;can stay in the air for up to
Homeland Security Secre- 20 hours at a time, sometary Janet Napolitano said thing no other aircraft in
northern border surveil- the federal inventory can
lance using unmanned aer- do,â&#x20AC;? Gray said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;In this manner, it is a
ial aircraft now expands
from North Dakota to east- force multiplier, providing
aerial surveillance support
ern Washington.
The two 10,000-pound for border agents by investiPredator-B unmanned air- gating sensor activity in
craft based in Grand Forks, remote areas to distinguish
N.D., have a 950-mile cover- between real or perceived
BY MANUEL VALDES
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

threats, allowing the boots
on the ground force to best
allocate their resources and
efforts.â&#x20AC;?
Since 2005, the Department of Homeland Security
has deployed a handful of
drones around the country,
with some based in Arizona,
Florida, North Dakota and
Texas â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with more planned
for the future.
Operations out of North
Dakota first began in 2011.
The drones help both to
patrol and aid during natural disasters.
For example, Gray said
the Predators have mapped
the flooded Red River Valley in the areas of North
Dakota and Minnesota. The

drones are equipped with
cameras that can provide
aerial pictures of disaster
areas. The drones also can
be loaned to local agencies
in cases of emergencies.
In fiscal year 2011,
CBPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drones contributed to
the seizure of 7,600 pounds
of narcotics and 75 arrests,
Gray added.
The use of drones has
proliferated among federal
and local law enforcement
agencies nationwide along
with civilian hobbyists in
recent years.
In December, Congress
gave the Federal Aviation
Administration six months
to pick half a dozen sites
around the country where

the military and others can
fly unmanned aircraft in
the vicinity of regular air
traffic, with the aim of demonstrating theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re safe.

Concerns remain
But concerns remain,
including privacy and the
government worries they
could collide with passenger
planes or come crashing
down to the ground, concerns that have slowed
more widespread adoption
of the technology.
A recent American Civil
Liberties Union report said
allowing drones greater
access takes the country â&#x20AC;&#x153;a
large step closer to a sur-

veillance society in which
our every move is monitored, tracked, recorded and
scrutinized by the authorities.â&#x20AC;?
Kendle Allen, sheriff of
remote Stevens County,
said his agency has not
asked for drone assistance.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is always mixed
feelings about something
flying above you,â&#x20AC;? Allen
said.
But he said in Stevens
Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rugged mountainous terrain, aerial patrol
can be useful in case of
emergencies.
His office has used U.S.
Border Patrol helicopters in
the past to search for people
missing in the woods.

VIMO receives
$2,500 from
OMC workers
PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

PORT ANGELES â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Volunteers in Medicine of the
Olympics, or VIMO, received
$2,500 in donations from
the employees of Olympic
Medical Center through
OMC charities this month.
The funds will help the
free clinic provide acute primary care to adults on the
North Olympic Peninsula
who have no health insurance or no other health care
options available to them,
said Rebekah Miller, VIMO
board member.

OMC praised
â&#x20AC;&#x153;VIMO is of course
thankful for OMCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ongoing
financial support, but
OMCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s generosity is demonstrated in countless other
ways, too,â&#x20AC;? Miller said in a
statement.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;For instance, Graciella
Harris, who manages the
nutrition department at the
hospital, coordinates the
delivery of sandwiches to
the clinic volunteers the

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promoting the annual Fiddle Tunes Festival. The facility at 540 Water St., which was
known as the Jefferson County Historical Society Museum, is now exhibiting art from the
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SEATTLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Faced with
significant numbers of
recent and impending
retirements, the State
Patrol said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s launching an
unprecedented hiring campaign.
The agency typically
hires and trains one class of
50 to 60 recruits annually.
But because of the retirement picture, the Legislature recently approved
funding for an additional
patrol academy class.
One cadet class already
has been selected.

60 more candidates

Physical requirements
Requirements vary by
age and gender, but candidates must be able to complete a 1Â˝-mile run in a
certain time and perform a
certain number of push-ups
and sit-ups.
To download an application or find out more about
the written test, the physical-exam requirements and
the details of the background check, visit tinyurl.
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PORT ANGELES â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Lorraine
McConaghy,
author and public historian,
will talk about the history of
the state at the History
Tales lecture Sunday.
The free presentation,
which is co-sponsored by
the Clallam County Historical Society and Port
Book and News, will be at
2:30 p.m. in Port Angeles
City Council chambers at
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last Thursday night of every
month.â&#x20AC;?
VIMOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clinic manager,
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contact with various staff
members of the hospital,
Miller said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Almost every day, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m on
the phone with radiology,
the lab, finance and/or the
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Fugitive spent 8 years fortifying bunker
experienced trackers to the
area, where they found offtrail boot prints confirming
their belief that he was
somewhere on the ridge.
They could smell smoke
from its woodstove before
they found it.
Authorities pumped tear
gas into the structure Friday, but it failed to flush the
man out, either because it
didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t penetrate deep
enough into the structure
or because the person had a
gas mask.

Lynnette, and 18-year-old
daughter Kaylene were
found shot dead in their
home last weekend.
The raid ended a tense
week for law enforcement
officials who tried to track
down Keller, a gun enthusiast described by his family
as having a â&#x20AC;&#x153;survivalist
mentality.â&#x20AC;?
That Keller was likely
armed and on the loose in
an extremely popular hiking and mountain-biking
area east of Seattle kept
many people on edge.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The gas didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work,
weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got fresh people here,
it was time to take the next
step,â&#x20AC;? said King County
Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sgt. Katie Larson.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a huge sigh of
relief. Our people are out
safe, and the trails are now
safe for the community to
use.â&#x20AC;?

NORTH BEND â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Peter
Keller spent eight years
carving his hole in the side
of the mountain, camouflaging the rugged underground
bunker with ferns and
sticks and stocking it with a
generator and ammunition
boxes sealed in Ziploc bags.
S u s pected in
the deaths
of his wife,
daughter
and
pets
last weekend,
he
h e a d e d Keller
there prepared for the long haul with
high-powered rifles, scope
and body armor.
Seattle-area tactical officers who slogged for hours
over dangerously steep,
muddy ground to find him â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Amazingly fortifiedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;
were prepared too.
The bunker, tucked into
Rattlesnake Ridge, was
22 hours
â&#x20AC;&#x153;amazingly fortifiedâ&#x20AC;? with
They pumped in tear at least 13 guns inside, progas, called for him over bull- pane tanks, a large gun
horns and, after 22 hours, scope, gas cans and binocuset off explosives along the lars, said sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sgt. Cindi
top of the bunker Saturday. West.
Photos released by police
Keller
was
inside,
already dead of a self- showed stacks of ammuniinflicted gunshot. A hand- tion in plastic bags on
shelves.
gun was next to his body.
SWAT teams spent a
The 41-year-old hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
been seen since his wife, grueling seven hours in the

Survivalist mentality

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this image released taken from the suspectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard drive Saturday, a
bunker that deputies say belongs to a man suspected of killing his wife
and daughter shows boxes of bullets in storage bags on a shelf and
other supplies.
Cascade Mountains foothills Friday morning, virtually crawling over terrain
slick with mud from recent
rains, before they found the
bunker.
A number of officers
were treated intravenously
for dehydration, and one
broke his ankle, said sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sgt. Cindi West.
The officers appeared
exhausted, their faces
smeared with camouflage
paint, as they rode down
the mountain in sport-util-

ity vehicles or armored carriers to be replaced by
fresher teams.
SWAT officers who kept
watch on the bunker
through Friday night said
they saw lights going on
and off, and they believed
its occupant had everything
necessary to remain inside
for a long time â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including
a generator, food, gas mask,
bullet-resistant vest and
guns.
Photographs found in
Kellerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home after they

found his wife and daughter gave authorities an idea
of where it was; in one picture that they enhanced,
detectives could make out
buildings in nearby North
Bend.

Alert hikers
Combined with reports
from alert hikers who
remembered seeing his
faded red pickup at the Rattlesnake Ridge trailhead,
the sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office sent

Court
documents
described Keller as a loner
with a survivalist mentality
and who was stockpiling
supplies in the woods.
An arrest warrant issued
Wednesday accused Keller
of two counts of first-degree
murder and one count of
first-degree arson; the home
was set on fire after Lynnette Keller, 41, and Kaylene both were shot in the
head.
Their bodies were found
in their bedrooms April 23.
The family cat and dog also
had been killed.
The fire at Kellerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home
was put out before the
house burned down, and
authorities said they found
seven gasoline cans placed
in different areas of the
home.
Kayleneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boyfriend told
detectives that Peter Keller
had shown him his gun collection and several largecaliber rifles and handguns,
court documents said.

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WASHINGTON — Congress is in recess this week.
Next week, the Senate will
take up a bill to hold down
student-loan interest rates, lation law.
Under
Dodd-Frank,
while the House schedule is
derivatives contracts such
to be announced.
as credit-default swaps are
to be publicly traded on
Contact legislators
exchanges and subjected to
(clip and save)
collateral rules.
But the law also gives
“Eye on Congress” is
published in the Peninsula the Commodity Futures
Daily News every Monday Trading Commission leewhen Congress is in session way to allow banks with
about activities, roll call certain asset levels — say
votes and legislation in the less than $10 billion — to
continue to trade swaps priHouse and Senate.
The North Olympic Pen- vately, outside of the
insula’s legislators in Wash- exchanges and without colington, D.C., are Sen. Maria lateral rules.
The rationale is that regCantwell (D-Mountlake
Terrace), Sen. Patty Mur- ulation increases the cost of
ray (D-Bothell) and Rep. borrowing, and small banks
do not create systemic risk
Norm Dicks (D-Belfair).
Contact information when their deals go bad.
This bill, which would
— The address for Cantwell
and Murray is U.S. Senate, write a small-bank exempWashington, D.C. 20510; tion into law, is being
Dicks, U.S. House, Washing- debated as the CFTC drafts
regulations to spell out
ton, D.C. 20515.
Phone Cantwell at 202- small banks’ obligations
224-3441 (fax, 202-228- under the Dodd-Frank law.
Dodd-Frank authorized
0514); Murray, 202-2242621 (fax, 202-224-0238); the first comprehensive regDicks, 800-947-6676 (fax, ulation of the then-$600
trillion U.S. derivatives
202-226-1176).
Email via their websites: industry, whose unraveling
cantwell.senate.gov; murray. helped cause the U.S. and
global economic meltdown
senate.gov; house.gov/dicks.
Dicks’ North Olympic Pen- in 2008 and paved the way
insula office is at 332 E. Fifth for massive taxpayer bailouts of Wall Street firms
St., Port Angeles, WA 98362.
It is open from 9 a.m. to through the Bush Adminisnoon Tuesdays and 1 p.m. tration’s Troubled Asset
to 4 p.m. Thursdays and by Relief Program.
A yes vote was to pass
appointment.
It is staffed by Judith the bill.
Dicks voted no.
Morris, 360-452-3370 (fax:
360-452-3502).
■ POSTAL SERVICE
OVERHAUL: Voting 62 for
State legislators
and 37 against, the Senate
Jefferson and Clallam on Wednesday approved a
counties are represented in restructuring of the U.S.
the part-time state Legisla- Postal Service aimed at putture by Rep. Kevin Van ting the agency on a profitDe Wege, D-Sequim, the able basis by October 2015.
The bill (S 1789) would
House majority whip; Rep.
Steve
Tharinger, use buyouts and early
D-Sequim; and Sen. Jim retirements to trim today’s
547,000-employee workHargrove, D-Hoquiam.
Write Van De Wege and force by 100,000 positions;
Tharinger at P.O. Box 40600 start new delivery services
(Hargrove at P.O. Box that do not compete unfairly
40424), Olympia, WA 98504; with the private sector; use
email them at vandewege. $11 billion in retirementkevin@leg.wa.gov; tharinger. fund assets to finance the
steve@leg.wa.gov; hargrove. massive staff reduction;
delay rural post-office closjim@leg.wa.gov.
Or you can call the Leg- ings for at least one year;
islative Hotline, 800-562- continue Saturday deliver6000, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 ies for at least two years;
p.m. Monday through Fri- close some mail-distribuday (closed on holidays and tion centers; cut payments
from noon to 1 p.m.) and to employees’ retirement
leave a detailed message, and health care accounts;
which will be emailed to reduce worker’s compensaVan De Wege, Tharinger or tion obligations and cap the
pay of top postal executives
Hargrove, or to all three.
Links to other state offi- at $199,000.
The service posted a $5.5
cials:
secstate.wa.gov/
elections/elected_officials. billion loss in fiscal 2011.
The House will take up a
aspx.
competing measure.
A yes vote was to pass
Learn more
the bill.
Websites following our
Cantwell and Murray
state and national legisla- voted yes.
tors:
■ Followthemoney.
■ COLLECTIVEorg — Campaign donors by BARGAINING RIGHTS:
industry, ZIP code and more Voting 23 for and 76 against,
■ Vote-Smart.org — the Senate on Wednesday
How special interest groups defeated an amendment to
rate legislators on the S 1789 (above) to strip U.S.
issues.
Postal Service employees of
their collective-bargaining
■ F I N A N C I A L rights, in response to the
DEREGULATION: Voting fact that 80 percent of the
312 for and 111 against, the agency’s total expenditures
House on Wednesday are labor costs.
passed a bill (HR 3336) to
A yes vote backed the
exempt derivatives transac- amendment.
tions by small banks, credit
Cantwell and Murray
unions, nonprofit-coopera- voted no.
tive lenders and farm-credit
institutions from transpar■ LOCAL POSTAL
ency and collateral require- AUTONOMY: Voting 35
ments set by the 2010 for and 64 against, the SenDodd-Frank financial-regu- ate on Wednesday defeated

Rep. Norm Dicks
D-Belfair

Sen. Maria Cantwell
D-Mountlake Terrace

Sen. Patty Murray
D-Bothell

an amendment to S 1789
(above) to start testing a
decentralization of the U.S.
Postal Service in which
local postmasters would
have autonomy to cut costs,
define service levels and
launch innovative programs without approval
from headquarters.
Opponents called this a
step toward privatization
that could end the postal
service as a nationwide
institution with uniform
standards.
A yes vote backed the
amendment.
Cantwell and Murray
voted no.

be sold in the state-based
insurance exchanges created by the 2010 health law.
A yes vote backed the
motion.
Dicks voted yes.

partners.
The bill also expands
protections for children and
the elderly and Native
American women.
The bill increases the
number of visas available to
battered women from
abroad; sets criminal penalties for certain actions by
international marriage brokers; expands the availability of safe homes for victims
of domestic violence; makes
it easier to bring charges
under the Telecommunications Act against persons
making obscene or harassing telephone calls and
addresses rape and other
sexual crimes on college
campuses, in part by requiring schools to publish crime
statistics.
Since it was enacted in
1994, the law has funneled
several billions of dollars in
grants to state and local
governments and nonprofit
organizations for a wide
variety of programs aimed
at preventing domestic and
dating violence, stalking
and sexual assaults and
helping victims recover
when those crimes occur.
Agencies such as the
departments of Justice and
Homeland Security and the
Center for Disease Control
and Prevention disburse
the grants through laws
such as the Victims of Child
Abuse Act, the Higher Education Act and the Immigration and Nationality Act.
A yes vote was to pass
the bill.
Cantwell and Murray
voted yes.

■ UNION
DUES,
POLITICAL
DONATIONS: Voting 46 for and
53 against, the Senate on
Wednesday defeated a
Republican bid to add the
so-called “Paycheck Protection Act” to S 1789 (above).
Under that proposed
law, individual postal workers would have to give permission before their union
dues could be spent on
political contributions.
A yes vote backed the
amendment.
Cantwell and Murray
voted no.
■ STUDENT-LOAN
INTEREST RATES: Voting 215 for and 195 against,
the House on Friday passed
a Republican bill (HR 4628)
to prevent student-loan
interest rates from doubling
July 1 from the present 3.4
percent to 6.8 percent.
This affects the pocketbooks of some 7.4 million
students who have received
Stafford Loans for college
expenses.
The bill would offset the
subsidy’s $5.9 billion annual
cost by cutting the 2010
health law’s fund to promote preventive-care, or
“wellness,” programs.
The bill is now before the
Senate, where Democrats,
who control that chamber,
also want to keep the student-loan interest rate from
doubling July 1.
But they would offset
the cost by effectively raising payroll taxes on some
wealthy owners of S corporations.
A yes vote was to pass
the bill.
Dicks voted no.
■ WOMEN’S, CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE:
Voting 178 for and 231
against, the House on Friday defeated a Democratic
motion that sought to prevent health care-spending
cuts in HR 4628 (above)
from reducing benefits in or
raising the cost of private
medical insurance for
women and children.
The motion sought to
protect treatments such as
mammogram, cervical-cancer and pregnancy screenings from being diminished
by the “pay for” in the
Republicans’ student-loan
bill.
Starting in 2014, most
private health policies will

Boy, 11, dies after colliding with bus on bike
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VANCOUVER, Wash. —
Vancouver police say an
11-year-old boy died after
colliding with a bus while
riding his bicycle.
Capt. Scott Willis said
the collision happened near
downtown Saturday.
The boy, identified as
Benjamin Fulwiler, had

been riding against the flow
of traffic, crossed a street
when the bus turned and
the two collided.
The Columbian reported
the impact severed the boy’s
left arm.
Willis
said
three
bystanders, including an
off-duty emergency room
nurse, assisted the boy at

the scene. He was found
lying at the rear left side of
the bus conscious but not
responsive.
C-Tran spokesman Scott
Patterson said there were
10 passengers on board the
bus. He said the driver has
been placed on administrative leave while the crash is
being investigated.

■ CYBERSECURITY,
CIVIL LIBERTIES: Voting 248 for and 168 against,
the House on Thursday
sent the Senate a bill (HR
3523) to expand data-sharing between federal security agencies and private
businesses in order to bolster U.S. defenses against
cybersecurity attacks from
terrorists, foreign governments, rogue hackers, overseas business competitors
and others.
Named the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), the bill
lowers privacy, securityclassification and anti-trust
barriers to enable datasharing between the public
and private sectors.
While the bill’s purpose
is to protect computer systems against crippling
shutdowns and information
thievery, it was criticized as
an infringement on privacy
rights and other civil liberties.
The bill grants immunity from prosecution to
companies that share customer data with the government.
A yes vote was to pass
the bill.
Dicks voted yes.
■ V I O L E N C E
AGAINST WOMEN ACT:
Voting 68 for and 31 against,
the Senate on Thursday
sent the House a bill (S
1925) to renew the Violence
Against Women Act through
fiscal 2016 and expand it to
cover gay men and undocumented immigrants who
are abused by spouses or

■ REPUBLICAN
SUBSTITUTE: Voting 37
for and 62 against, the Senate on Thursday defeated a
Republican substitute to S
1925 (above).
While the GOP plan also

extended coverage to gay
men, it was less comprehensive and costly than the
underlying bipartisan bill.
The substitute differed,
in part, by setting mandatory minimum sentences
for child pornographers,
bolstering the role of U.S.
marshals in tracking sex
offenders and imposing
stricter oversight over
Department of Justice
funding of anti-violence
programs.
A yes vote backed the
GOP substitute.
Cantwell and Murray
voted no.
■ RULES
FOR
UNION
ELECTIONS:
Voting 45 for and 54 against,
the Senate on Tuesday
failed to kill a new rule by
the National Labor Relations Board that will
advance the date of unionorganizing elections by days
or weeks.
This defeated a GOP
measure (SJ Res 36) that
sought to quash the rule,
which is due to take effect
today.
Under the rule, elections
on whether workers will
form into collective-bargaining units could be held
as soon as 10 days after the
NLRB certifies the election
petition, not the usual 35
days or longer.
Both sides consider the
length of the delay crucial
because studies show that
when employers gain time
to persuade workers to
reject unionization, they are
more successful, while
unions tend to fare better
when elections are held
promptly.
The new rule quickens
the election timetable
mainly by reducing the
number of pre-election
hearings and filings and
deferring certain challenges
until after voting has
occurred.
Established in 1934, the
NLRB is charged with
investigating allegations of
unfair labor practices by
employers and resolving
disputes between employees and management over
the implementation of labor
laws.
The five-member board
is presidentially appointed
and subject to Senate confirmation.
A yes vote was to kill the
new rule.
Cantwell and Murray
voted no.

Death and Memorial Notice
ROGER DALE
WASHBURN
April 22, 1953
April 15, 2012
Roger Dale Washburn
passed over on April 15,
2012, with his longtime
companion, Jeannie
Braack, and two oldest
sons, Shawn and Gene
Washburn, by his side.
He was born in Port
Angeles on April 22,
1953, to Nadine Emily
Duncon and Glen Neal
Washburn.
He grew up in Agnew
and Sequim, and graduated from Sequim High
School in 1972.
After graduation, he
went to work as a logger
before joining the Marine
Corps in 1973. Upon his
discharge, he returned to
logging and later became
a woodcutter.

Mr. Washburn
He enjoyed fishing,
hunting and driving backroads. Roger considered
the Dungeness wilderness his backyard.
Being a practical joker
since he was young,
Roger told his girlfriend
Jeannie that at his wake

he wanted to be like Bernie — as in the movie
‘Weekend at Bernie’s.” He
stated: “Put me in a lawn
chair in front of the fire
with my hat on and a beer
in my hand.”
Roger is survived by
his companion of more
than 20 years, Jeannie
Braack; sons Shawn
Washburn, Gene Washburn, Sam Washburn, and
Byron Washburn; daughter Michelle Washburn;
mother Nadine Braack;
sister Joyce Mobley; and
brothers Wes (Deb)
Washburn, Kevin Washburn and Jay Meyers;
also, eight grandchildren
survive as well as many
nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in
death by his father and
his brother, Wayne.
A celebration of life will
be held at a later date.

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Progress of war written in graffiti
AS I WALK around the
streets of Beirut, that verse from
“The Sounds of Silence” keeps
rattling around in my head:
“The words of the prophets
are written on the subway walls,
and tenement halls. . . .”
There is a
highly revealThomas L.
ing graffiti war
Friedman
going on here
pitting opponents of Syria’s
president,
Bashar alAssad, and his
Lebanese ally,
the Hezbollah
leader Hassan
Nasrallah, on
one side and
their Lebanese
and Syrian supporters on the
other.
Assad and Nasrallah have
long called themselves “the resistance” to Israel, using that to
build their legitimacy and to justify arming themselves against
their own people.
What is stunning to me is how
much their masks have now been
ripped off by their own people.
It is written on the tenement
walls around Beirut.
The latest collection includes
slogans like “The resistance is
only resisting our freedom,” or
Assad’s picture above the words
“Step here” and “The one who
kills his own people is a traitor.”
Both Assad and Nasrallah

still have their sectarian followers, but outside of that shrinking
circle they have lost the aura
they cultivated from “resisting
Israel.”
Now both men stand naked
before the Arab world for all to
see — one using arms to “resist”
the will of many Syrians and the
other to “resist” the will of many
Lebanese. Their people are no
longer afraid to openly mock
them.
Hanin Ghaddar, a rising
young Lebanese Shia journalist,
last week wrote an open letter to
Nasrallah published by the popular NOWLebanon.com, saying:
“You were the brave hero who
vanquished the Israeli Army in
2006 and brought dignity back to
the Arabs.
But you know what? These
glorious days are over, and the
word ‘dignity’ has now gained a
new definition.
“It has nothing to do with
your sacred arms and glorious
victory. It is now about the power
of the people on the street and
their fight against their dictators.
...
“Let us imagine this farfetched scenario. When the uprising broke out in Syria, let’s say
you came out in full support of
freedom, or at least clearly asked
the Syrian regime to refrain from
using violence against the protesters.
“Can you imagine how popu-

lar and loved you would have
been today?
“The Syrian people, from all
sects, had photos of you hanging
in their shops and homes after
2006.
“Today, they burn your pictures on the streets.”
But what to do about Syria’s
uprising?
Let’s start by putting it in historical context.
What is happening in Syria is
the first popular movement since
the late 19th and early 20th century that has not been animated
by foreign policy or anticolonialism or Israel or Britain.
Instead, says Paul Salem, the
director of the Carnegie Middle
East Centre in Beirut, “it is

Peninsula Voices
to lead the country.
A beneficial side effect is
I believe there is a group
huge
corporate profits and
of powerful people in this
bonuses
for themselves.
country, almost exclusively
Why am I sure of this?
Republican, who will do
Look at current and hisanything to see Barack
torical oil versus gas prices.
Obama defeated this fall.
The last time gas was
You might think I’m
this high (July 2008, $4.05 a
talking about the billiongallon U.S. average) crude
aires who are contributing
hundreds of millions of dol- oil was $145 per barrel.
They told us at the time:
lars to conservative SuperSorry ’bout that, but the
PACs.
high price of gas is mostly
You’d be wrong.
I’m talking about a cabal due to the cost of the primary ingredient: crude oil.
of oil-company executives
Then, the oil/gas ratio
who have set the price of
was 65 percent. In other
gasoline and diesel artifiwords, oil made up almost
cially high.
two-thirds of the price.
Despite the pain to
Now, gas [nationally] is
American businesses
$3.87 but oil is only $103
and middle-class families,
they hope to stifle the econ- per barrel.
At the same oil/gas ratio,
omy, raise the unemploygas should cost only $2.88
ment rate and cast doubt
on the president’s ability
per gallon.

Oil, gas prices

Why is gas so much
higher now?
I believe the reason is a
toxic mix of political thuggery, speculation, price fixing, collusion and greed.
Don’t let this artificial
manipulation of America’s
economy divert your attention from the progress
Obama is making to help
the middle class.
Doug Atterbury,
Port Angeles

World Book Night
I just wanted to send a
note expressing my gratitude to the organizers and
participants of World Book
Night [“They’re Sharing a
Few Good (Free) Books,”
PDN, April 22] and share
my experience.
My group of three, all

OUR

demonstrators, hoping to provoke
a violent backlash.
Then he could argue that this
was not a peaceful democratic
revolt but a sectarian revolt by
Syria’s Sunni Muslim majority,
aimed at ousting Assad’s ruling
Alawite/Shia minority and its
allies.
To some degree, it worked: Now
we have a democratic struggle
intertwined with a sectarian one.
This is why some Lebanese
and Syrian activists here believe
that — though it’s a long shot —
it is still worth giving time for
the UN envoy Kofi Annan’s effort
to consolidate a cease fire and
put 300 Arab observers inside
BILL DAY/CAGLE CARTOONS Syria.
If the Annan plan fails, then
about us and our jobs and
the West, the U.N. and the Arab
accountable government. . .
“It is a profound reorientation League need to move swiftly to
set up a no-fly zone or humanito domestic priorities and pragmatism,” emerging from the bot- tarian corridor — on the TurkishSyrian border — that can provide
tom up, he said.
a safe haven for civilians being
The Syrian uprising, it is crupummelled by the regime and
cial to remember, began as a nonsend a message to the exhausted
violent protest by young men
Syrian Army and residual supover corruption in the Syrian
porters of Assad that it is time
town of Dara’a, for which they
for them to decapitate this
were brutally tortured.
regime and save themselves and
It stayed remarkably nonviothe Syrian state.
lent, nonsectarian for months,
________
under the slogan “Silmiya, Silmiya” (Peaceful, Peaceful).
Thomas L. Friedman is a
It was deliberately turned into three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning
a civil war by Assad.
columnist for The New York Times.
Syrian Opposition activists
His column appears every
Monday. Email Friedman via
here in Beirut make clear that
Assad opened fire on unarmed
nyti.ms/friedmanmail.

READERS’ LETTERS, FAXES AND EMAIL

employees of First Step
Family Support Center,
decided we would visit multiple locations looking for
people who might need a
book.
We started at the [Port
Angeles] downtown pier,
known as a youth hangout.
Many classify these
young people as disrespectful “street kids” or “loiterers.”
We were treated only
with extreme politeness and
appreciation, and it was
amazing to see the excitement they showed for the
books, sharing stories about
reading certain titles and
finding new ones they
wanted to read.
The Single Adult Shelter
was our next stop, and we
were immediately recognized
by one of the residents.

They exclaimed “First
Step is here!” and were so
grateful for the books and
that we thought of them in
our deliveries.
At the Veterans Center,
we talked to several men
who initially said, “My wife
might want one, sure,” but
then quickly changed their
mind when they found
books that they wanted to
read themselves.
The experience was
incredibly special.
We heard dozens of stories and met some really
incredible people, from taxi
cab drivers to baseball parents to street kids — all the
while putting books into
each of their hands.
I would encourage
everyone to get involved
next year — let’s show the
world that Port Angeles

cares about adult literacy.
Maggie Fricker,
Port Angeles

Recognition sought
Being a longtime sports
sponsor and loving sports, I
would like to know why,
after the Sequim High
School girls’ fastpitch team
went 28-0 and won the state
championship, the town of
Sequim did not or has not
put up a sign at both ends
of town on Highway 101.
If you go to other towns
that have won state titles,
you will see signs that tell
people about it. This is something people like to know as
few, if any, high school girls
teams have ever gone undefeated the whole season.
Del Gott,
Sequim

Student loans a national debt crisis
A MODERN KNOWLEDGE
economy thrives on highly
trained workers.
The way to
get them, obviFroma
ously, is
through educa- Harrop
tion — from
basic reading
skills for some
to mastery of
algorithms for
others.
It thus
would seem a
basic public
good to provide
that learning
at little or no cost to students,
which most advanced countries
do.
But America has turned posthigh-school education into a taxpayer-subsidized business — a
business not unlike real estate at
the height of the housing bubble.
Think Americans owe a bundle on their credit card balances?
They have $693 billion on
their plastic, while they owe
more than $1 trillion on student
loans, according to the Consumer

Financial Protection Bureau.
Think health costs are out of
control?
They rose only 150 percent
from 1990 through 2011.
During that period, the cost of
attending a four-year college (not
including room and board) soared
300 percent.
There is clearly a disconnect
between Americans’ stagnating
incomes and the rising costs of
educating their children.
The education bubble will
have to burst. Online courses
may supply the hatpin.
For example, venture capitalists are putting millions into
Coursera, a company that provides online college courses for
free.
Founded by two Stanford University professors, Coursera
offers classes taught by professors from Stanford, University of
California, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania
and Princeton.
Other startups, such as
Minerva and Udemy, are offering
similar high-quality education
experiences, though generally not

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for college credit.
Where is the payoff for investors? Through extras that the
students may want to buy.
As in the music business, we
see an unbundling of product.
Rather than buy an entire CD,
fans can download this song from
artist A and that song from artist
B.
Likewise, students wanting a
solid college education could take
this course given at MIT and
that course at Michigan.
Best of all, they wouldn’t have
to cough up the average $119,400
for tuition and fees (many are
way higher) needed to spend four
years at a private university that
sinks millions into presidents’
salaries, profs who don’t teach
and charming retreats abroad.
Could this model of learning
work for high-school grads wanting a trade?
Many for-profit technical
schools aggressively advertise to
suck high-school grads into questionable courses for which the
students take on unconscionable
debt.
Up to half of all student loans

that go under are held by their
dropouts and graduates. (The big
players include ITT Educational
Services and the University of
Phoenix.)
But from the Ivy League on
down, postsecondary education
feeds off government grants and
taxpayer-backed loans.
Economists point to these subsidies as an excuse to raise
prices.
Meanwhile, the lenders,
whether government or private
student-loan companies, employ
famously brutal techniques to
collect.
And what’s this doing to our
economy?
It’s creating a mass of young
people sagging under monstrous
debt burdens. They are unable to
buy a house, much less start a
business.
If failure to pay back student
loans ruins their credit rating,
they can’t borrow for anything.
As Mark Zandi of Moody’s
Analytics put, “We are creating a
zombie generation of young people larded with debt, and, in
many cases, dropouts without

any diploma.”
This should sound familiar:
Like risky mortgages, risky
private student loans have been
packaged into securities that are
sold to the public.
Concerns are growing that a
pileup of student-loan defaults
could imperil these investments.
Yes, it’s like the housing bubble all over again.
And in its quest to help students obtain education from private sellers, the government has
helped spike their price.
Either the federal government
will change the game or online
educators will.
Both should be giving it a try.

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Slow day at the office
M’s can’t get into gear
against Toronto in loss
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Washington quarterback Keith
Price eyes a player down field
in the first half of their spring
NCAA football game in Seattle
on Saturday.

TORONTO — The Seattle
Mariners couldn’t come through
in the clutch Sunday, and it cost
them.
Edwin Encarnacion hit his
third home run in three games,
Henderson Alvarez won for the
first time since August and the
Toronto Blue Jays beat the Mariners 7-2.
The Mariners went 0 for 14
with runners in scoring position
and have not won a series north
of the border since June 2008.
“We didn’t play very well all
day,” Seattle manager Eric
Wedge said.
“I didn’t feel like we were
giving away at bats, but the end
result of at bats wasn’t very
good.”
Jeff Mathis added a two-run
homer as Toronto broke open a

close game
with a fiverun eighth
inning.
Chone
Figgins and
Miguel Olivo
hit solo hom- Next Game
ers for the
M a r i n e r s , Today
who
lost vs. Rays
their second at Tampa Bay
straight.
Time: 4 p.m.
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put at least
one runner
at second or
third base in each of the first,
second, fourth, sixth, seventh
and ninth innings but failed to
cash any of them in.
“We got the runners on, we
just couldn’t push them across,”
Figgins said.

second time in 15 major league
starts.
The right-hander, whose only
other victory came at Baltimore
last Aug. 31, walked a careerhigh three and struck out one.
“We had some good hacks at
him but he started changing
speeds, started taking something off his fastball,” Figgins
said.
“I think he saw that we were
seeing his pitches and started
taking a lot off his fastball.”
The Mariners jumped in
front early when Figgins drilled
Alvarez’s sixth pitch of the game
over the wall in right, his second
leadoff shot this season.
Jason Vargas (3-2) held
hitless until Eric
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Toronto
Thames’ two-out double in the
Seattle pitcher Steve
fourth, an otherwise routine fly
Delabar looks back after
ball that dropped in front of Fighitting Toronto’s Edwin
gins in left.
Encarnacion with a pitch.
“I broke back,” Figgins said.
Scoring runs wasn’t easy “I felt bad that [Vargas] was
against Alvarez (1-2), who going so good and had a no-hitter going for me to break back.
allowed one run and six hits in
TURN TO MARINERS/B4
six-plus innings to win for the

It’s all
Riders, Sequim play for second
about
Teams meet
defense
today in PA
for final game
for UW
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SEATTLE — Cornerback Marcus
Peters leveled wide receiver James
Johnson, blowing up a would-be
screen play, then strutted on the
field.
That encapsulated Washington’s
spring game on Saturday.
The defense dominated a hybridstyle spring game, winning 36-10 in
front of 11,802 at sunny CenturyLink Field.
A lack of healthy offensive linemen forced Washington to invoke a
scoring system that credited the
defense with three points for each
stop, and used the normal offensive
scoring rules.
Washington was not able to split
into two full teams, ran a small portion of the playbook, and sprinkled
in entertainment for the fans
between quarters.
When there was action, it was
controlled by the Huskies’ defense
under new coordinator Justin Wilcox.
Defensive lineman Andrew Hudson led the team with six tackles.
But, it was the secondary that
made numerous plays.
Peters’ big hit was complemented
by knocked down passes from Greg
Ducre and stout coverage by cornerback Tre Watson.
Wilcox has shifted Washington
into more of a 3-4 defense.

PORT ANGELES — Ace
Easton Napiontek went the distance, striking out nine in seven
innings, to spark Port Angeles to
a crucial 8-1 baseball victory
over Bremerton.
That sets up a showdown
today for second place in the
Olympic League between the
Roughriders and their archrival, Sequim.
The two teams play at Civic
Field starting at 4 p.m.
If the Wolves win, it will create a tie for second.
A Riders victory would give
Port Angeles second outright
and a shot at a share for first if
league-leading North Kitsap
loses its final two games.
The Knights, meanwhile,
beat the Roughriders 7-3 behind
their ace, Eli Fultz (7-0), on Friday in a regularly scheduled
Olympic League game at
Bremerton, and then the Riders
turned around and smashed the
Knights 8-1 in a makeup game
at Civic Field on Saturday
behind their ace, Napiontek
(4-1).

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Port Angeles’ Marcus Konopaski attempts to bunt in the third inning against
Bremerton on Saturday at Port Angeles Civic Field.

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Free to play
A common theme from the spring
and after Saturday’s dressed-up
practice was that Wilcox’s approach
has freed defenders.
“We’ve got a lot of young guys out
there running around, it takes a little more of the thinking out,” senior
safety Justin Glenn said.
“More of just letting us play.”
The Huskies recorded seven sacks
Saturday. That number comes with
the caveat that there was no tackling
to complete a sack.
Once quarterbacks Keith Price or
Derrick Brown were touched, the
whistle blew to stop play.
Regardless, getting there is progress for the maligned defense that
finished 11th in the Pac-12 last season in scoring and total defense.
Wilcox set three goals at the start
of April when he was first able to get
his hands on the team.
“First thing was, we really want
to develop our brand,” Wilcox said.
“And that was generally speaking,
who we are not only schematically,
installing a new defense, but what
we’re about. When people turn on
the TV, what do they say about that
team on the field.
“We wanted to improve our tackling. I think that’s any defense. You
have to be a good tackling defense.
You can cover people and you can fit
the runs, but if you can’t get them on
the ground, it doesn’t matter.
“And the third thing was to play
mentally quick. I think that comes
with a little bit of repetition and confidence.”
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Pro woman rider Jill Kintner of Seattle speeds down the Northwest Cup mountain bike race course on
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Robinson each scoring two
runs each for OLC.
Tranco’s Reid hit a double and Madelyn Roenig a
single in the top of the
fourth inning to push
across Saige Hefton, who
reached on a walk, for
Tranco’s lone run.
Olympic Labor broke
open the scoring with six
runs in the third and two
in the fourth before the
game was called on time
limit.
OLC now is 1-1 while
Tranco is 2-1 on the season.

Boulevard
picks up
big victory
PORT ANGELES —
Boulevard claimed a 7-3
win against Paint and Carpet Barn on Friday thanks
to strong performances
from Brennan Gray, Callie
Hall and Aiyanna Jackson
in North Olympic softball
action.
Gray had two hits,
including a home run,
scored three times and provided excellent defense
behind the plate.
Hall pitched four
innings for the win and collected two hits of her own,
while Jackson picked up
her first hit of the season,
scored a run and played
solid defense at second
base.
Paint & Carpet Barn
received great pitching
from Isabelle Dennis while
Sierra Wilson had two hits
in the loss.

Swain’s nips Elks

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Blake Hiday, 12, of Rotary, pitches to Laurel Lanes in a Cal Ripken game
Thursday at Lincoln Park in Port Angeles. Backing up Blake is Chris Bray,
left, and Eric Emery at shortstop. Rotary won the game 10-3 to improve
to 4-0 on the season.

Derek Hinsdale went
the distance for Hi-Tech,
striking out four Lions hitLions no-hit Hi-Tech ters to keep Hi-Tech close,
PORT ANGELES —
but they couldn’t manage
The Lions defeated Hi-Tech any offense against a great
4-0 in 12U baseball action
combined pitching perforFriday night.
mance.
Strong defense and the
pitching efforts of Gavin
Westport wins
Guerrero, Peyton Harris
PORT ANGELES —
and Colton McGuffey led to
Westport shut out First
the Lions notching their
second no-hitter of the sea- Federal of Port Angeles 7-0
son.
in Olympic Junior Babe
Guerrero, Harris and
Ruth baseball play.
McGuffey combined to
Alex Brown struck out
strike out 11 Hi-Tech batthree and scattered four
ters.
hits in five innings.
The three also supplied
Talon Cameron pitched
the offense with an RBI
the final two innings, faneach.
ning two and allowing just
Kenny Soule sparked
one hit.
the scoring in the bottom of
Travis Paynter led the
the third inning with a solo
Westport
offense, going 4
blast to straight-away cenfor
4
with
two doubles and
ter, putting the Lions up
scoring one run.
1-0.
Cameron was 3 for 4
It was all the scoring
the Lions would needed as with a double and a triple.
He scored two and had an
they moved to 5-0 on the
season.
RBI.

Connor Heilman went 1
for 2, scoring a run.
Ricky Crawford and Ian
Dennis both went 1 for 3
for First Federal each.
Westport is still perfect
on the year at 4-0 while
First Federal is 1-1 for the
season

Rotary dials it up
PORT ANGELES — In
his first ever start on the
mound, Blake Hiday
allowed only two hits and
struck out 11 in four
innings as Rotary (4-0)
defeated Laurel Lanes 10-3
Thursday in Cal Ripken
baseball action.
Rhe Munyagi and
Anthony Gregory each had
two hits for Laurel.
Dane Bradow had two
doubles to the wall, scored
twice, and drove in two for
Rotary, which took advantage of nine Laurel walks
and remained undefeated
on the year.

Victory for OLC
PORT ANGELES —
Olympic Labor Council
handed Tranco Transmission its first loss of the season on Thursday in a 9-1
softball victory.
The game was a hardfought pitching duel
through the first two and a
half innings with Lauren
Lunt holding Tranco scoreless while giving up only
one hit and striking out six
batters.
Tranco’s Kylee Reid
pitched the first two
frames, giving up one run
on two hits and striking
out three.
Kennedy Cameron
pitched the final inning for
OLC, striking out two
while giving up one run.
Lunt and Halaina Ferguson provided OLC’s hitting. Mikayla Ramey
walked three times and
Sierra Robinson walked
once and was hit by pitch
twice, with Ramey and

PORT ANGELES —
Swain’s General Store narrowly beat Elks by scoring
two runs in the bottom of
the sixth for a win in Cal
Ripken baseball competition last Monday.
Cyler McBride kept
Swain’s in the game with a
two-run homer, and finished off the game with a
strong performance on the
mound.
The game featured
strong pitching on both
sides, and it took a bunt by
Gabe Wegener to tie the
game with the winning run
scoring on an error on the
same play.
Trenton Tetter and Ian
Miller led the way for Elks
with each hitting a triple.
On Thursday, Swain’s
finished the week on a
strong note by beating
Eagles 11-7.
Strong pitching and a
three-run homer by Gabe
Wegener helped Swain’s
get through a shaky defensive night.
For Eagles, Joel Wood
may have had one of the
season’s best plays when
he crashed against the
backstop to catch a foul
ball.

KONP 15-11 on Thursday.
Diamond Roofing
blasted out 17 hits, spread
from the top to the bottom
of the order.
For the Diamonds,
Alyssa Wetzler had four
hits, Paige Reed had two
doubles and Cara Cristion
had the big bat and delivered on the mound.
Cristion had a single,
double and triple, just a
home run from the cycle.
She also pitched the
complete game, striking
out eight KONP batters.
KONP was led by Tori
Kuch, who had two doubles, and Rachel Eastey
with two hits. Taylor Galland had a single.

Labor Council wins
PORT ANGELES —
Olympic Labor Council
defeated Paint and Carpet
Barn 11-3 in North Olympic softball play Saturday
morning.
Kennedy Cameron
pitched three innings of nohit ball for OLC, holding
Paint scoreless, before leaving with a 5-0 lead.
In the top of the fourth
inning, PCB scored three
runs following a leadoff
walk and a single by Sierra
Wilson.
OLC responded in the
bottom half of the inning
with six runs on six hits.
Gillian Elofson, Mikayla
Ramey and Sierra Robinson got their first hits of
the season and Halaina
Ferguson and Lauren Lunt
both hit doubles.
Summer Olsen played
tough defense at second
base for Paint, stopping
several OLC players before
they reached first.
Olympic Labor Council’s
pitching, which recorded 10
strikeouts while giving up
only two hits, proved too
tough for Paint and Carpet
Barn.
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